Monday, October 26, 2009

Parking Tickets Up

Your chances of receiving a parking ticket in Chicago have shot up from last year, and the pace has accelerated even more in recent months.

A ticketing blitz in the city has led to a 26 percent spike in parking meter violations so far in 2009, according to city records provided to the Tribune in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

The area in and near the Loop accounted for half the increase in tickets.

Parking and non-moving compliance violations tickets issued by the Chicago Police Department and traffic control aides declined about 10 percent in the first eight months of this year compared to the same period last year, Walsh said. Meanwhile, tickets issued by the Revenue Department increased almost 10 percent.

Compliance violations (front/rear plates) and meters (surprise!) showed large increases while Rush Hour and Street Cleaning tickets (both traditionally police written) had double digit decreases. And as the manpower shortages continue to leave police running from job to job and unable (or even unwilling) to perform ticket writing duties, we expect a bigger shift toward "revenue" writers rather than police.

YEAH, THE WONDERFUL REVENUE DEPT !!! THESE SO CALLED REVENUE PEOPLE THAT WORK FOR THE DEPT OF REVENUE, NOT THE PRIVATE COMPANY, TOLD MYSELF AND MY PARTNER RECENTLY THAT THEY WERE TOLD THEY HAVE TO WRITE AT LEAST 40 PARKERS A DAY, AND BELIEVE US WE WERE APALLED AT WHAT THEY ARE BEING TOLD TO WRITE---- PARKING 12" FROM THE CURB..... GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK. 12 INCHES FROM THE CURB? AND A QUOTA? THIS IS GETTING REALLY FUCKING SAD.....

I SAY WRITE THE DEPT OF REVENUE TRUCKS WHEN THEY ARE ILLEGALLY PARKED AND ALSO THOSE SAD ASS TRUCKS THAT WORK FOR THE NEW PARKING METER COMPANY THAT HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT FUCK ANY AND EVERYONE THEY CAN, WHAT GIVES THEM THE RIGHT TO ISSUE TICKETS TO EVEN THE POLICE!!!

HEY SHORT SHANKS HOW BOUT THAT NOLYMPIC BID YOU LOST IN THE 1ST ROUND!!!! HEHEHEH WOOHOO, I KNOW I'M STILL ROLLIN AT HOW YOU LOST THE BID YOU POS !!!

They posted a street cleaning sign BEHIND a branch on a tree at the front of my block. The sign was obscured by the leaves. I found the sign after I began looking for it due to the ticket issued. They also wrote a ticket on my wife's car for parking on the sidewalk even though she was in the driveway. Contested sidewalk Citation based on fact of driveway permit and city ordenance for construction of driveway make it clear sidewalk is removed and replaced with a driveway thus can't be on the sidewalk if parked on driveway and took picture of sign. Bet u can guess how depart revenue decided both counts guilty PAY DALEY MACHINE.

FUCK THAT POWER TEST, ALSO I LIVE WITHIN MY MEANS SO FUCK SPECIAL TOO. I ENJOY MY DAYS OFFS SOME OF YOU SHOULD TRY IT. I KNOW THE ECONOMY SUCKS BUT SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO DO WITHOUT. I WAS RAISED BY DEPRESSION BABIES SO THEY TAUGHT US WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING. THEY PAID FOR OUR FRESHMAN YEAR OF CATHOLIC SCHOOL BUT BY THE TIME WE WERE 16 WE HAD TO GET A JOB AND HELP OUT. I HATED THEM FOR IT THEN I'M BETTER FOR IT NOW.

1. By installing the pay boxes, more cars on the block have to pay for parking (at least 6-10 cars)

2. By installing pay boxes and removing the meters, we now dont have the luxury of finding an "underused meter"- one with time remaining on it, meaning EVERY car on the block must now eat the unused cost of parking!

Looks like LAZ is gonna get their money paid back in the FIRST YEAR. That is smart business (for them)!

Slick bastard....I wonder what happened to all the "savings" of layoffs and cutbacks? What happened to all the belt-tightening? Seems the budget hole grew double what it has been!

Crime is growing, yrt thry want us to take a pay cut? How about the 100 plus we are down? Its funny they never mention the "savings"- they never say the bugeted strength is less than 13,500 which means thats IN THE BUDGET, so without the 1,000+ that translates into a "Savings" of $50-75 MILLION a year! That's our "pay cut" Mister Ed- No disrespect to the talking horse!

My son was given a $50.00 dollar parking ticket by a copper (Female) in 16...that cost me $50.00...but I was more pissed off by the way he was treated by the Female Desk Officer in 016..when he went to pay for it. So...keep giving daley money while he keeps fucking us...and as far as that desk officer in 016...you need an attitude adjustment...come out and play with us REAL POLICE...you should get a quarter of what I get paid....shove your attitude up your ass.

Have no inclination to go into downtown Chicago on personal business.....ever! But had to yesterday, Sunday, and hated every minute.

Parked on the street with the very front of my car north and behind the kiosk parking sign by about a foot, but the fire hydrant 15' yellow curb extended one more foot north beyond the front of my car, which is two feet beyond the parking sign. Paid $3.50 for one hour, put the receipt on my dash, did what I had to do, got back to the car in time to still be legal and then got the hell out of Dodge.

As I am getting in my car, a gentleman walks up to me and tells me how lucky I am not to have been towed. He tells me that he once parked exactly as I was parked. Not only did they write him a ticket, but they put him in a towed vehicle, very costly "nightmare", even after he paid for parking at the kiosk, had the receipt on his dashboard and was still "legal", as far as time on the receipt.

He explained they did him that way even though the parking sign was into the 15' fire hydrant yellow curb by two feet south. Why? Because of a damn planter!

The sidewalk planter extended two feet into the fire hydrant yellow line, which only allowed for about 18" of sidewalk and curb between the planter and the street, so the city workers did not install the base of the parking kiosk sign within that 18" X 24" space, so they backed it up those 24" south into the yellow line for the hydrant. But the parking enforcement bitches do not give a fat rat's ass if you park behind the sign, pay an outrageous fee for street parking and put the receipt on your dash. One foot into the yellow line and you get a costly ticket and a very expensive tow. mare dumbly has set things up so citizens trying to do the right thing are going to be the victims of a "legalized" robbery!

I have to keep telling my neighbors that it is not my brothers and sisters in blue giving them the BS parking tickets, it's revenue, under the direction of Mayor Daley. I suggest they to beef to the alderman and Mayor's office.

This shows you how Police services can be privatized. Don't need cops to write tickets. Next reports will be taken by police aides so desk crews could be cut. They could just have police for in progress crimes. So with all the after the fact reports being done by non-police, you could probably get by with just rapid response cars only. (All beat car functions handled by police aides) This could cut the police force down to say about 4500. A great plan with great savings. Remember Aides could be paid about $15 an hour with a decreased benefit plan.

Keep locking people up and writing tickets. Make JPUD, Dugan and Daley look good. Anyone who does anything and then justifies it these days is a fucking tool. Keep cutting the workforce, see what happens!

no more special ???? is the cta going to bring back the brown shirt police again---- who is going to babysit the tubes and high crime bus routes--- the districts do not have the manpower--- they have threatened to do this before many times.... cta employees would love this as it increases the size of their union and more goes into the pension fund... the cta pension fund is almost bankrupt... but cta management looks at the overall cost involved and sees that it is much cheaper to pay off duty officers straight time to work days off with no benefits versus hiring their own police force...

Talked to a guy a couple months ago who worked at the ticket adjudicators office. He said that the pressure was on to rule AGAINST citizens appealing parking citations. The thinking is that each citation is like a check written to the city and they don't want to give it back uncashed.

My brother was parked in the midway airport garage for 9 days,everyday he received a ticket from same copper same expired plate violation! OFFICER JT ON DAYS IF YOU WANT TO BE A TICKET WRITER RETIRE AND BE A TRAFFIC AIDE!

They also wrote a ticket on my wife's car for parking on the sidewalk even though she was in the driveway. Contested sidewalk Citation based on fact of driveway permit and city ordenance for construction of driveway make it clear sidewalk is removed and replaced with a driveway thus can't be on the sidewalk if parked on driveway and took picture of sign. Bet u can guess how depart revenue decided both counts guilty PAY DALEY MACHINE.

10/26/2009 02:43:00 AM

Let me guess, you are one of those butt-munchers that parks their car over the sidewalk because it is part of your 'driveway'. No it's not.

The City allows you to drive over it' sidewalk to access your garage. The sidewalk must remain open to wheelchairs and pedestrian traffic, you know, stuff you don't give a passing thought to,

OT..... Every officer working Obama election night in 010 is being served with a CR# by IAD without a signed affidavit. Call the FOP when you get yours. RE: Area/4 gas van driving around spraying corners. Hmmmm? they don't work in 010 and had masks on. Whatever!I'm gonna go write some parkers now...not!

FUCK THAT POWER TEST, ALSO I LIVE WITHIN MY MEANS SO FUCK SPECIAL TOO. I ENJOY MY DAYS OFFS SOME OF YOU SHOULD TRY IT. I KNOW THE ECONOMY SUCKS BUT SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO DO WITHOUT. I WAS RAISED BY DEPRESSION BABIES SO THEY TAUGHT US WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING. THEY PAID FOR OUR FRESHMAN YEAR OF CATHOLIC SCHOOL BUT BY THE TIME WE WERE 16 WE HAD TO GET A JOB AND HELP OUT. I HATED THEM FOR IT THEN I'M BETTER FOR IT NOW.

They posted a street cleaning sign BEHIND a branch on a tree at the front of my block. The sign was obscured by the leaves. I found the sign after I began looking for it due to the ticket issued. They also wrote a ticket on my wife's car for parking on the sidewalk even though she was in the driveway. Contested sidewalk Citation based on fact of driveway permit and city ordenance for construction of driveway make it clear sidewalk is removed and replaced with a driveway thus can't be on the sidewalk if parked on driveway and took picture of sign. Bet u can guess how depart revenue decided both counts guilty PAY DALEY MACHINE.

So ur one of the idiots that thinks he can park on the driveway and block the sidewalk so my kids have to ride their bikes in the street to get around your car. The driveway is city property as well as the sidewalk. Check your survey your lot stops at the sidewalk dummy. So no guy you cant block the sidewalk.

Anonymous said...OT..... Every officer working Obama election night in 010 is being served with a CR# by IAD without a signed affidavit. Call the FOP when you get yours. RE: Area/4 gas van driving around spraying corners. Hmmmm? they don't work in 010 and had masks on. Whatever!I'm gonna go write some parkers now...not!

10/26/2009 12:06:00 PM

No affidavit is needed if the complainant is sworn or if there is allegations of criminal wrongdoing.

I also dealt with a complaint from a citizen who was told a PO wrote her a parker falsely. (it wasn't a PO, Dept of Revenue did it)

At the Dept of Revenue office the private security say they get people in there complaining all the time about falsely written tickets.

I just point to the picture of daley hanging on the wall and remind people it is he who is stealing from them. The citizens get screwed enough from this administration, I am largely sympathetic with them, I will not add to their screwing, I get my own screwing from daley etc.

All you ticket getting whiners. I've got 3 cars and a bike, you know how many parkers I've gotten in the last 24 years? ONE, 20 years ago. It's not really that hard to stay out of trouble with parkers.

@ 10/26/2009 10:49:00 AMRevenue does NOT have a quota, you stroke. Well....thats not 100% accurate..

We HAVE to issue At LEAST 2 tickets per Hour to be in compliance with our time management rules to Cover Our Asses every day.

(who you calling stroke jack ass !!! you just said "we HAVE to issue at least 2 tickets per HOUR".... THAT, JACK ASS, IS A QUOTA.. YOU STUPID ILLITERATE FUCK!!! you show up to work and that should be enough to justify your existance, oh im sorry you're a minimum wage ass kisser !!)

Oh...and Books of Parkers have 30 tickets in them now.....learn2count.

Oh...regarding the 12in ticket...

Director of Revenue instructed all PEA's to start issuing for it in middle of September.

(again.... quota!!!! pimply tickets !!!,,, by the way, pray you never call for help in and or around our beat, you're not one of our brothers in blue and you never will be, so watch out )

Shows that you don't write much,,,parkers are now 30 in a book, used to be 25,,,,,,hasn't been 20 in a book in about 6 years.

10/26/2009 09:09:00 PM

Just shows that there are some on this department who like me will not write tickets to generate revenue for the mayor. Make up your mind (if we write a ticket you remind us that we are in slow down mode and to not generate revenue because of no raise, but if someone says they don't write tickets then they are a dog or stupid)

-Revenue does not issue crack windshields violations (CPD does)-I Have seen CPD write Bogus tickets more than i have seen any other agency such as:: rear and front plate for a Temp Plate: BLocking access to driveway when they are not: Rush hour when it is 355pm ( on many occasions ) and they put a time of 401pm: Rpp violations that have Annual permits but because they do not get out of the car they do not look

- The worst i have seen is when they ticket Mexicans in the Pilsen and Little Village community with bogus tickets and the poor saps dont know what the hell is going on.

Dont get me wrong i have met a lot of beat cops who walk their beat and they are great guys. there is however a few that like to use their authority to threaten Parking aides with refusing help when called. I want to see the one cop who is willing to risk his job for that mistake. Off duty is off duty if you are parked in a bus stop, tow zone, expired meter your just another ticket. DONT ABUSE POWER BY TAKING OUT YOUR BADGE.

- i WANT TO THANK THE BIKER COPS WHO STOPPED BY AND SAW A GUY YELLING AT ME AFTER WRITING RUSH HOUR TO SEE IF I WAS OKAY. TRUE COPS.